Courtesy of Marvel Comics, that’s She-Hulk (in her more-ordinary Jen Walters form) and the Jack of Hearts (don’t ask) strolling over Bow Bridge in Central Park. Here’s a roughly similar view, from the 1984 HABS survey, before two rounds of restoration work (one of them OSE’s):
The picture above, courtesy of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, shows the Little Singer Building at 561 Broadway as it looked in 1973, when it was designated as a landmark. The building was constructed in 1903 as the Singer Building and picked up “Little” when the Singer company constructed the big tower a …
One of the sources I’m mining for both images and topics is the alphabetic index to the HABS and HAER collection. I looked at it today and “fink trusses” jumped out at me, so here’s a fink truss roof in the machine shop of the New Haven Railroad, in New Haven. It was constructed in …
I got sucked into a discussion about Oriel Chambers (photo above by Matěj Baťha), an 1864 office building in Liverpool with very open facades, starting here: First, obviously, Oriel Chambers is a fantastic building. Nothing I say here should be construed to mean that I think anything else. The word “skyscraper” is quite subjective, and …
